Pathophysiology of Heat Stroke

Leon, Lisa R.: - Lisa R. Leon, Ph.D., received a B.A. degree (1985) in Anthropology-Zoology, an M.S. in Kinesiology (1990), and a Ph.D. (1996) in Physiology from the University of Michigan. She completed postdoctoral training at the Lovelace Institutes, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Delaware before accepting a Research Physiologist position at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) in 2001. She is currently Team Leader of the Environmental Pathophysiology research program at USARIEM and also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Human Physiology Program at Boston University. She is a member of several editorial boards including the Journal of Applied Physiology and the American Journal of Physiology. Her research is focused on unraveling the mechanisms that mediate systemic inflammation to heat stroke with the goal of discovering novel biomarkers and pharmacologics to improve diagnosis and treatment of multi-organ system dysfunction.